School of Rock

Learning to play a new instrument or finally nailing that expert guitar riff takes time and patience. And along the way, it doesn’t hurt to have a great teacher or mentor to help you reach your goals. With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the global leader in music education helping to turn musical…

In this installment of our Oktane15 customer blog series, Sam Dresser, senior director of information strategy at School of Rock, waxes poetic about why he attends Oktane every year – and what it’s like to be an Okta groupie. If you’re at all like me, the thought of giving up a couple days of work sounds scary. And if you’re at all like me, you’re…

Maybe you attended Oktane13 last year. Maybe your IT department recently adopted Okta and you want to learn more about identity management. Or maybe you heard about last year's customer appreciation party. Whatever the reason, you’re interested in attending Okta’s second annual user conference, Oktane14, and we don’t blame you. Much like this…

We have lots of incredible customers, and each one is responsible for our company's success. On Tuesday, the final day of Oktane13, we recognized several customers that have pushed us (and our product) to make their jobs easier, and their employees more productive. Thanks again to all of our customers and partners that made Oktane13 such a special…

By Arun Shrestha, vice president of customer success at Okta. Today’s the final day of our first user conference, Oktane13. It has been wonderful to be surrounded by so many successful customers and partners, with diverse IT environments. Customer success is everyone’s job at Okta — and as vice president of customer success, I’ve been thrilled to…

Guest post by Evan Trent, senior vice president of corporate development at School of Rock. Evan Trent, senior vice president of corporate development at School of Rock At School of Rock, our mission is to inspire the world to rock on stage, and in life. We’re working toward that mission by giving students the opportunity to learn and perform…

The countdown continues – we’re less than five weeks away from Oktane13 and excited to announce an incredible lineup of speakers at our inaugural user conference. A major theme at Oktane13 focuses on how businesses are navigating changes in IT, such as movement to the cloud, increased mobile adoption and changes to collaboration. Our engaging…

We recently hosted a CIO panel with four IT leaders to discuss the evolving role of IT amid the pressures of mobile and cloud adoption in business today. Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis), Evan Trent (SVP, School of Rock) and Carl Eberling (CIO, Encore Capital) represented an eclectic mix with backgrounds in consumer goods,…

Big changes are affecting the enterprise as increased cloud and mobile adoption pushes businesses further beyond the firewall — and IT is right in the middle. That’s why we’ve gathered senior IT leaders from Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Carl Eberling (CIO, Encore Capital), Evan Trent (SVP, School of Rock) and Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis) for an…

Jack Black may not have had to worry about IT challenges in his 2003 movie “School of Rock,” but the real of School of Rock does. The music program, which encourages its students to rock on stage and in life, was founded as a single music school in Philadelphia in 1998. Almost fifteen years later, it’s now an international franchise, operating…